[address-policy-wg] Guidance Requested: Changing the Status of PI Address Space

* andrea

> A. Allow LIRs to change the status of their PI assignments to PA
> allocations (if equal or larger than the minimum allocation size)

This.

I cannot see how denying such requests could possibly be to the benefit
of the community. On the other hand I can clearly see that denying them
would be detrimental by making the NCC appear rigid, inflexible, and
customer-unfriendly; and likely also running counter to the policy's
Registration goal, as some of the LIRs that got such conversion requests
refused would likely go ahead and use the addresses as if they were
labeled PA anyway.

There is some related precedent, cf. section 5.4 regarding conversion
from ALLOCATED PI and ALLOCATED UNSPECIFIED to ALLOCATED PA.

Personally, I'd even take it one step further and omit the minimum
allocation size constraint too. I consider the minimum allocation size a
policy mechanism that is only there to serve the Aggregation goal.
However, as these delegations are already made, merely relabeling them
does not make any difference when it comes to aggregation.

Besides, it is some precedent here too afaict:

ripencc|SE|ipv4|193.108.42.0|512|20010406|allocated
ripencc|DE|ipv4|193.218.220.0|512|19981110|allocated
ripencc|PT|ipv4|194.117.48.0|512|19941206|allocated
ripencc|IT|ipv4|194.153.212.0|512|20000509|allocated


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